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Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

Bell, Rob · 2007

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Themenever huggedpuritan upbringingmother's late-life apologythe lifelong reaction-formation that became playboytwenty-four-year-old residueasking a girl to dancepublic rejectionpre-teen dance

Context2007lived_experience

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Sexuality and spirituality are not opposites but two expressions of the same longing to connect across the infinite distance between persons.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

religion-and-sexintimacyembodiment

religion-and-sex

Sex was for procreation only and the rest was sin — no hugging, no kissing; the body itself placed under prohibition.
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intimacy

Walking across that cafeteria chasm to ask a girl to dance — those of you who have walked this road know the determination it takes.
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embodiment

My mother apologized for not being able to show affection — the body's withheld gesture becoming a life-shaping absence.
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Illuminates

2 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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